GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 68

邹

邹 is read as zōu.

Pinyin

zōu

Script forms

Simplified 邹 · Traditional 鄒

Basic meaning

ancient state name

Five element

Metal

Origin

Time: Zhou to Warring States Zou/Zhu state tradition; Warring States tradition, 475-221 BCE

Place: Zou state, commonly associated with today's Zoucheng area, Shandong Province

Origin note

A major Zou surname tradition traces the surname to the ancient state of Zou, also historically connected with Zhu traditions in Shandong. Descendants and state people used Zou as a surname.

Historical figures

邹衍 (Zou Yan)

c. 305-240 BCE · Warring States thinker

Associated with Yin-Yang and Five Phases thought.

邹容 (Zou Rong)

1885-1905 CE · revolutionary writer

A late Qing revolutionary writer known for The Revolutionary Army.

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